Scrooge Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
A
links to malthusian theory about overpopulation being the cause of poverty
2
Q
“Are there no prisons?”
“And the union workhouses?”
“Is the Treadmill and the Poor law are in full vigour,then?”
A
Scrooge is very selfish and must find every excuse not to pay the charity worker
3
Q
“Every idiot who goes around with ‘Merry christmas’ on his lips,should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
A
4
Q
“Because you fell in love” growled scrooge
A
5
Q
“Scrooge never painted out Old marley’s name”
A
